The Thursday letters page is impressed that Nintendo is spending time and money to bring back Famicom Detective Club, as one reader ask what’s next after Concord?
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PES dispenser
There’s been no surprises so far in the reveals of EA Sports FC 25 and given last year’s game was a hit I imagine EA now think they’re bulletproof. But there is this rumour of 2K getting the FIFA licence, which does automatically make them a contender – especially as they’ll get the World Cup rights as well.
As much as anyone enjoys EA Sports FC I’d be surprised if they said it was unbeatable. For me, I still miss the days of PES when it was at its peak and while I know it wouldn’t be as good to play now, for the time it still had a much better sense of pace and ‘feel’ than any EA game ever has.
Konami’s only real problem, before it went off the deep end, was not having the official licences, so casual gamers ignored them. They also couldn’t afford as good as marketing as EA. 2K shouldn’t have any of those problems and so I feel EA Sports FC’s position is not yet guaranteed. At the very least some proper competition has been a long time coming.
Bonza
Turning Gears
Everyone seems pretty convinced that Halo needs to rest for a long while before anyone can care about it again but what about Gears Of War? We know for a fact there’s a new game coming up, and there’s lots of rumours of it or a remaster collection coming to PlayStation 5 – which doesn’t seem unlikely to me.
But do the games still stand-up? Well, I’m going to say… yes. In terms of gameplay they do. I played Gears 5 again recently, to get a go on the Hivebusters DLC, and it was really good fun, with excellent graphics. The problem with the series, and this includes the DLC, is the characters and story all feel so basic and very 90s xtreme. Which is weird, because the first one didn’t come out until 2006, so they should’ve been over it by then.
For me at least Gears Of War is both cheesy and kind of dumb but at the same time not fun, in terms of its story, which is not a good combination. Personally, I think this could’ve been easily fixed by making the new game a reboot and not a prequel. Gears Of War either needs to be cheesy and silly or serious and grounded but it’s neither and that kind of spoils it.
Losman
Victory lap
Looks like GC’s tip about Emio being a Famicom Detective Club game was on the money. I can’t pretend to have played the earlier games but if it’s a visual novel, with those graphics, sadly I can’t say I’m too interested anymore. Strange that they advertised it with a completely different style of art. If they thought that was a good idea, why not make the whole game like that?
It’s interesting though, especially for Nintendo to be doing something like this, so I’ll keep an eye on it and will certainly pay attention to the reviews. I’d also echo the opinion that Nintendo are really making sure the Switch is going out with a bang, rather than just letting it fade away, and I really appreciate that.
They didn’t need to release this game, I doubt it will sell very well, and yet here we are. It’s interesting what companies do when they’re on top and things couldn’t be much different than Sony’s lack of communication and Nintendo basically doing a victory lap right now.
Taylor Moon
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Openly realistic
I love racing games, whether arcade or simulation, but I really don’t get why we haven’t had an open world racing game with realistic physics on consoles. Something like Forza Horizon but with sim handling and damage would be great. I remember playing the first Driver game and loving the handling of those ‘70s vehicles and it seems strange nothing has come close to that since.
I’m sort of looking forward to the new Test Drive game but it looks like it has more arcade handling. Hopefully there’s a sim option but I’m not holding my breath.
Also, I would love to see a return of games like Split/Second and Blur but it looks like now game companies don’t want to take the risk unless it’s generic racing games. Here’s for some Inbox magic!
Rob
GC: We don’t know about sim style handling, but we really wish Forza Horizon had proper crashes and damage modelling.
Physical demand
I don’t normally click on such articles, but I found it an interesting read regarding UK video game sales.
The article mentions that physical games sales dropped 40% but, overall, games made more revenue than music and video, which itself saw a rise in its physical department of 7.9%.
After reading the article, I took away that people still want physical and that it will never truly go away, which is unlike what the industry is saying.
EllDeePee
GC: People might not want it to go away but the games industry does, because digital is more profitable – given there’s less middlemen involved.
Second quote
My Xbox Series X would not turn on with the controller. Neither will it turn on via the unit itself. I have tried resetting the power supply and unplugging everything and holding down the power button for 10 seconds, but nothing works. After a look on the internet, it seems my internal power supply is broken and needs replacing.
I really need to get my Xbox Series X repaired but after visiting the Microsoft store, they want £290 to do the repair, even though they don’t know what actually needs repairing. It could be a £10 or £40 job but regardless they still charge £290, which I consider far too much.
I’m Derby based and apart from phone shops that repair phones and tablets, I do not have many options. I’d like to know if people would recommend the tech centre which is a repair company that CeX have teamed up with.
I usually avoid using CeX for reasons I won’t go into here. However, in this case CeX are just acting as the middleman for the tech centre.
So would people recommend this service? My current quote is for £99, if that helps?
Chaosphere
Back on the map
Good to know that the Tokyo Game Show is back to some sort of level of importance. Now that E3 has gone it’s weird that the only two events left are in Germany and Japan. Well, it’s not weird for Japan but it has certainly been a while since they were the centre of attention.
My only worry now is how long before Geoff Keighley decides to do a three-hour long preview showcase before it, that doesn’t start till the middle of the night?
Jonnie 5
Anonymous leaders
I find it hard to imagine that anyone thinks Concord is going to be the best game ever and at the same time I think you’d have to be exaggerating the point to say it’s the worst. I really doubt that being middle of the road is going to harm it though. You only have to look at things like The First Descendant and Once Human, which have just come out and are doing well, to see that people aren’t really bothered by things being familiar. In fact, that’s probably what they’re looking for.
What worries me though is what does Sony do next? With Helldivers 2 they’ve made two third person shooter live service games now, so are they going to make a third and a fourth? I know Concord is a hero shooter and Helldivers is co-op, but are such small distinctions going to be the only difference from now on?
I wish Sony would say something about their long-term plans, but they’ve been even more quiet since Jim Ryan left, even though they’ve now got two CEOs instead of one. Are they just never going to say anything now? Never appear in public? I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that they don’t want to talk to us or the idea that they’ve got nothing to say.
Ratso
Inbox also-rans
That EA Sports FC 25 cover would’ve been so much better if we’d actually one. Now it’s just going to be a sad reminder for the next 12 months.
Sandman
I see Fallout has been nominated for best TV series at the Emmys. I doubt it will win but it’s cool that it’s even nominated. How far we’ve come in just a few years!
Focus
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